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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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